Rewrite your "fail script."
Leave the catastrophes for the nightly newspeople.
Self-talk about rejection predicts both long-term success and long-term failure, psychologists have proven.
Your default fail script goes, "This always happens. It's all my fault. And it's going to ruin everything."
Instead, when you're next rejected—and every time thereafter—tell yourself, "It's temporary. Situational. And not about me."
Novelist James Lee Burke once said, "Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work."
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